NCT04338945

Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Surgical Specialities Residents in Italy

Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Surgical Specialities Residents in Italy: an Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.) Survey

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 800 (actual)
• Sponsor: Piazza della Vittoria 14 Studio Medico - Ginecologia e Ostetricia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Coronavirus Emergency has severely affected Italian Healthcare National System. This event made it necessary to adopt extraordinary containment measures and to allocate extraordinary resources in Italian hospitals. In many centers routinely elective surgical activity has been decreased or even completely abolished. We believe that this exceptional condition is being consequently having a significant impact on surgical training programs.

Detailed description

Purpose of this investigation, organized by the Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.), is to establish the impact of COVID-19 emergency in the work and training activities of Italian surgical residents. There will be collected the residents' impressions by completing a survey on this topic. A sub-analysis for each pandemic wave (first, second, third) will be done.

Conditions

• COVID

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	COVID-surgRES questionaire	The questionaire gives a multidimensional assessment of residents' impression with regard to impact of COVID emergency on Italian specialist training programs

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-15
• Primary completion: 2020-04-15
• Completion: 2020-05-01
• First posted: 2020-04-08
• Last updated: 2022-03-17

Locations

7 sites across 1 country: Italy